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Dr. Jayasuriya is a life science venture capitalist. Dr. Jayasuriya is founding partner of a new life Science fund, an affiliate fund of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, called LifeScience-India, investing in US companies that are leveraged by performing core strategic functions in India. She was previously a partner with Skyline Ventures in Palo Alto, and prior to that with the German US venture capital firm TVM, in San Francisco. Dr. Jayasuriya's expertise consists of a unique combination of business, basic science and medical knowledge. Her prior positions include VP-Corporate Development at Genomics Collaborative Inc., and Vice President, Global Drug Development at Hoffman-La Roche for opportunistic infections in AIDS and Transplantation. Dr. Jayasuriya received a BA from Harvard summa cum laude, and an MD and PhD (in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) from Harvard Medical School. She interned in Pediatrics at Boston Children�s Hospital and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. Dr. Jayasuriya also has a M. Phil. in pharmacology from the University of Cambridge, England. | 